Tuesday, Sept. 12

According to my SINQ Pop Culture Studies course (which might be called something else now?), Office Space is a comedy about Western wo/man’s feelings of being trapped and unseen within corporate and suburban yuppie culture.

MEMORIALAll the Way Lovely
7 p.m.
The Know
Free, 21+

Celebration of life dance party for Spencer Higgins aka DJ Alonzo Mourning Sickness, a Portland-based DJ who regularly spun at Cruzroom, The Know, Killingsworth Dynasty and Random Order for almost twenty years.

Part of T:BA. Basically an art dance party, but if you want the artist statement: “nothing is civilized anymore. esta noche the kids get loud! we’re not going to bed early tonight. ART AS BRAT through clothes, poetry, performance and dance. As resident artists within the festival the collaborators will interrogate and celebrate the spaces art and audiences inhabit while exploring the value of collective and absurd outbursts en un mundx locx.”

Sonic artists, “mix sound, visuals and movement into a cohesive exploration of the senses. The experimental performance will engage with acoustics, psychoacoustics, physical interaction with sound, movement, music and noise, to lead the audience on a journey through time and space.” Part of T:BA.

Thursday, Sept. 14

FAMILYPints for Pups
5 p.m.
The Station
No cover, all ages

HUB and Oregon Humane Society’s summer social series at The Station comes to an end. Bring your family, including your canine kids, for live music, giveaways and a dog-friendly menu (which, of course, does not include alcohol, because alcohol is horrible for dogs!).

JAZZNica’s Dream
6 p.m.
The 1905
Free, 21+

Nica’s Dream is an all-female jazz quartet consisting of pianist Kerry Politzer, vocalist Anandi Gefroh, drummer Rivkah Ross and guitar player Whitney Moulton. The musicians collectively have decades of nationally accredited training and have performed alongside national acts like The B–52’s.

This documentary explores the condition of schizophrenia, and the numerous conditions that aren’t schizophrenia but are lumped under the same label for people who do not understand the nature of psychosis.

#PDXBall’s theme this month is The Fifth Element (1997). Witness or participate in a competitive vogue ball, where looks are inspired by the film, and the categories are: Future Face 2200, Runway Diva and Vogue Femme.

Friday, Sept. 15

FILMmother! (2017)
Multiple dates/times
Cinema 21
$7–10, all ages

If you pretend that Noah (2014) never happened, mother! is the directorial follow-up to Darren Aronofsky’s Black Swan (2010) that sees him serving up trippy psychological femme horror, this time centering on Jennifer Lawrence.

COMEDYDoug Benson
5 p.m.
Helium Comedy Club
$22, 21+

Doug Benson returns to Portland for another night of standup stoner humor.

Marshall Crenshaw is an Americana singer-songwriter who played Buddy Holly in La Bamba (1987) and whose songs were often covered by artists like Ronnie Spector, Bette Midler and S Club 7. Los Straitjackets are most famous for performing The Late Show with Conan O’Brien‘s holiday music in the late ’90s, and for their stage attire: black suits, gold Aztec medallions and ornate máscaras de lucha libre (Mexican wrestling masks).

COMEDYJim Gaffigan
8 p.m.
MODA Center
$35–180+, all ages

Jim Gaffigan comes to Portland on his “Noble Ape” Tour.

Saturday, Sept. 16

Women size 10–28 can shop for this season’s must-have looks at Universal Standard’s pop-up shop to exhibit their first full collection. Universal Standard is also hosting a model search for their next collection. Models will be flown to NYC to meet with executives.

Part of T:BA. bart fitzgerald’s “Church in the Trap House” explores the blurring of the secular and the sacred in contemporary hip-hop, with examples like 2 Chainz’s use of a gospel choir during his “Pretty Girls Like Trap Music” tour. Madison moore’s “Touching Techno, Feeling Bass” explores listener’s physical reactions to bass and its roles within different musical genres.

PODCASTDoug Loves Movies4:20 p.m.
Helium Comedy Club
$22, 21+

Note the show’s start time. Different from Doug Benson’s Friday night standup comedy night. Doug Benson’s podcast taping will hear him and a cast of comedians riff on trivia about movies (or “films”).

Note from VG EIC & resident Doug Loves Movies proponent Colleen Leary: Bring a movie-themed name tag for a chance to win a crap-shoot bag of prizes donated by this week’s guests. If I were making a name tag for the author of this article, I might go with ‘Andrew D. Django-ski’ I used a ‘Colleens vs Zombies’ poster parody of Matthias Hoene’s Cockneys vs Zombies to *almost* take home a Dolly Parton-themed care package, complete with a pink silk negligee courtesy of Portland’s ever-cherished Amy Miller. Also if you haven’t seen Cockneys vs Zombies, you’ve made a grave mistake.

Menzies reads in support of his new poetry book, Brilliant Odyssey Don’t Yearn, Wiatr reads in the United States for the first time since returning from a French residency, and Stevenson reads in support of a new tarot book, The Dark Exact Tarot Guide.

Sunday, Sept. 17

Babe (E.G. Daily) ventures to Metropolis (not the Superman or Fritz Lang ones) for a family comedy that honestly got a little too timely as this film starts turning 20: We see themes of rural plights vs. corrupt mortgage bankers, pre–9/11 airport drug drama and pre–Zootopia but post-Animal Farm commentary on social class through sentient, English-speaking animals. Also, how does this movie have Jim Cummings, Hugo Weaving, Adam Goldberg, James Cromwell and Mickey Rooney?

CABARETMagic Men
7 p.m.
Roseland Theater
$25–100, 21+

Think of a mashup between Chippendales Dancers and a non-singing Village People: men embody what some sad marketing executive thinks are masculine fantasy roles for the bachelorette/divorce party crowd. If none of them were on Backpage, I don’t care.

CABARETThe Hamilton Mixtape Cabaret
7:30 p.m.
Dante’s
$15–20, 21+

Miss Kennedy’s Cabaret opens its seventh season with a burlesque, drag and contemporary dance tributes to Hamilton, The Hamilton Mixtape and Spamilton from Lily Le Fauve, Claire Heacock, Glenn Waco, the Feral Dance Crew and more.

From the copy: “Mary (Kim Hunter)’s sister, Jacqueline (Jean Brooks), has gone missing. As she searches for clues to her disappearance, she finds herself closer and closer to a shadowy group, the Palladists—followers of an ancient Satanic cult.” Presented by Church of Film.